Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.19

c14.19

and should manufacture a lobe of the ear therefrom after scarification of the place (Su 1.16.14 f.; AS 6.22). If one has lost his nose, the surgeon should cut a leaf of equal size from a tree, place it on the cheek and cut out from the same an equal-sized piece of skin and flesh, suture the cheek with needle and thread, scarify the existing piece of nose, put on quickly but carefully the cut up skin on it, join it properly with a large bandage and stitch the (new) nose firmly. Then he should put in carefully two reeds in order to ease the breathing and when it is elevated thereby, he should moisten it with oil and sprinkle it with red sandal and other blood-sucking powders. White cotton should then be placed on it and it should often be sprinkled with sesame oil. The operated person should then be given ghee and later a purgative. Suśruta also appears to have spoken of the intersection of the bridge. If after cure the nose has too much flesh or skin, it should be cut up and stitched once more. If it falls short, it should be enlarged. For cut up lips similar procedure as for nose-making should be adopted except putting in of the reeds (Su 1.16.27 f.; AS 6.22; AHr 6.18.59 ff.).